During a recent visit to Moscow, he spoke with Peter Lavelle, United Press International's Moscow-based analyst, on the year that was in Chechnya.
The following is the transcript of the interview:
UPI: How different is Chechnya today as opposed to a year ago? What were the year's most important events?
Ware: In some ways, the situation in Chechnya seems tragically similar to that which we saw a year ago. Last December, 78 people were killed when a truck bomb exploded outside the Grozny headquarters of Akhmad Kadyrov, who was heading the Chechen administration that Moscow supported. This December, a total of 56 people died in two suicide explosions, on a train in southern Russia, and in central Moscow. Ten policemen were killed when militants from Chechnya invaded the neighboring Republic of Dagestan. During the intervening months there were another 14 terrorist explosions at locations throughout Russia that were connected with the Chechen conflict, and there have been sporadic skirmishes between Chechen militants and Russian forces. Last December, Russian officials evicted hundreds of Chechen refugees under appallingly inclement conditions from the Aki Yurt refugee camp in the neighboring Republic of Ingushetia. This December, Russian officials evicted dozens of refugees from the
Alina camp in Ingushetia. Officials promised the refugees accommodation in a nearby camp, but there were delays
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